Department of the Navy, Carderock Division Headquarters, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Code 3323, Bethesda, MD 20084-5000

A -- A--ENGINEERING SERVICES SOL N00167-96-R-0071 DUE 011597 POC Catherine H. White, Code 3323, Contract Specialist (301)227-1077 Faith L. Ferris,Code 3323, Contracting Officer (301)227-3602. Engineering Services to support R&D programs of the Total Ship Systems Directorate of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWC/CD). The Total Ship Systems Directorate supports Division-wide programs dealing with total ship or major subsystem development or acquisition planning, integration of mission subsystems into conventional and advanced ships, technology development planning, and management of survivability technology and damage control programs. Engineering services will be required to assist in performing feasibility designs for surface ships, submarines, submersibles, craft, advanced naval vehicles and amphibians, and in developing computer-based modeling and simulation tools to evaluate the performance of HM&E systems, combat systems, total integrated systems, as well as new technologies and system/subsystem concepts. Engineering services will also be required to assist in the Marine Corps Surface Mobility and Armor program, the Combatant Craft programs, Multiservice Logistics programs, and technology base programs for ship and submarine concept assessment and costing. The contract will require a mix of Naval architecture, Marine engineering, systems analysis, systems definition, acquisition planning and other technical services primarily in support of the programs of the NSWC/CD Total Ship Systems Directorate. The contractor must have experience in Naval vehicle and/or subsystem development, including design, with emphasis on experience in state-of-the-art variants of conventional Naval vehicles, surface ships, submarines, submersibles, amphibious and land vehicles, in advanced vehicles, and in mission subsystems for these vehicles. The period of performance will be five (5) years and the total estimated man-hours for all five (5) years will be five hundred twenty-seven thousand (527,000). (0302)

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